[Coco] Barden Book

[John M. Eicher]

Although I would not be necessarily fond of that law. (and no, I will
*not* discuss politics here).

Judging by the intentions in British Common Law, I would suspect an
unreasonable royalty would be contrary to the spirit of the copyright
provision in question. Hence, I would imagine an unreasonable royalty or
stipulation could be struck down rather easily.

(Just my opinion, I am not an attorney ;>))

John

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
On Behalf Of Kenneth Schunk
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Barden Book


I'm not clear how useful that provision would be. If it just obligates
the copyright holder to provide a license, but doesn't specify any
terms, what's to stop the holder to set license terms that effectivly
deny the license. Say, for example, royalities of $500 per book sold -
clearly nobody would want a license at those terms.

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:01:20 -0400, James Dessart <james at skwirl.ca>
wrote:
> 
> On 7-Jul-04, at 12:47 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:
> 
> > That part, I'm not quite following.  He's obligated to give you a 
> > license?
> 
> I'm looking through the act now, and I'm not certain that the 
> provision is still there. It's been a while since I saw the provision,

> and it may have been repealed since.
> 
> James
>